This video completely changed my 25m underwater!! Thank you very much! I used to arrive at the end in a panic and now I'm feeling totally relaxed and ready for the next underwater run.

„The best way to improve something is not to keep doing it and expect it to get better, but to break it down into components and to take a look at those components individually.“ Awesome advice! Now i‘m totally motivated to go back learning... ...a new difficult tune on my piano! :-)

This worked flawlessly. Previously I could only get to about 15-18m, but after this video doing 25m is not a problem whatsoever. Many thanks!

Even at 70 years old you can still learn something great video. I think in my next life I will come back as a SWCC team member. Moving on to training/practice. Thanks

I love your no nonsense though love approach

This is the best video about underwater technique. The BEST. Thank you, this was so helpful.

Don't see swimming underwater as something to endure. It's fun. Very helpful.

Looking forward to implementing the tips! I’m a pretty decent underwater swimmer but it’s always nice to revisit a professional opinion like this

I am a beginner for Apnea Free diving, in our training program we have also as it called ' Dynamic no Fin' and we must training exact like in your video. I didn't realise before, that to swim underwater ' counting a stroke ' is everything! until you said it. Because for Apnea we must relax and learn to gliding underwater and try to use a minimum stroke ( I guess). Thank you so much for all this important technique and have clearly explained. Sometime when I dive so deep and my trainer said to me that ' should keep dive in the same level deep in the pool and not too deep.' I didn't understand until I have watch this video... I wish I could training with you and your group. Love this video Thanks again.

This is a great video. It completely changed my technique. When first starting I would complete a 25m swim in 8 strokes, now I do it in 5. Thanks so much for sharing.

Thank you for posting your tips! I have to do and up and back underwater swim in a smaller pool for my Dive Master Program and with a few of these tips I can do it! CV has shut down the pools so I'm not able to practice prior. Thanks!

Always train with a buddy. Good stuff coach.

Hey Coach, I've been working on the skills you teach in this video and my results have been remarkable. Once I started using these techniques I went from wanting to gasp at 40' to now comfortably covering 80'. Great lessons!

Because of this video. I just did my first 50m. Thank you!

Thank you for this awesome vid

thank God my uncle is a professional swimmer and he teached me all that when I was 8 and I swim like this for years )) funniest and best way to swim in my opinion. I always go underwater.

Thank's so much for your guide,

Great advice. Thanks.

Well said. You need to work on your technique. You don't need to work on the distance.

thanks men for pointing out few things to keep an eye for

For pj's and cct's...you have to swim to the bottom, touch the corner of the pool before swimming back.

Work on your technique not on your distance - word of the year on swimming. 🙏🏽💫

Please we need some exercises or dry land help us for under water Thank you

This is useful for people who NEED to do a long underwater swim. Start slowly and build up, and you will be able to go a long distance.

Pretty good video about hypoxic training and underwater swimming. Excellent point about if you are stupid about this you are gonna die..... Some things to add, coming from swimming since I was about 5, 71 now... One thing I noted on a couple of swimmers, related to posture/body position, was that after a dolphin kick or two, they left their ankles flexed in normal walking position rather than pointed in stream line position. I never could do the old frog kick as well as the newer whip kick which is necessary for the breast stroke, my legs don't work that way. Even using the scissor kick and the breast stroke double arm pull, the thing that drives me crazy about it is the kick and glide part. You come to an almost complete stop and then have to regain momentum again, which is not efficient for me. I push off the wall, do the double arm pull, then progress the rest of the way with a slow dolphin kick and a short arm/hand pull from thighs up to my belly button, then push back to stream line. Not nearly as much stop and start, though still some. I would suggest that all swimmers add a dolphin kick or two after the whip kick. Minimal effort and lots of extra propulsion. One exercise my coach had me do was with freestyle, and this is for working up to a length in one breath, and hopefully a full lap. It is with freestyle. Swim a length breathing every other arm stroke. Next length breath every 3rd stroke, then 4, and up till you can make the full lap. It helps a lot if you are not used to trying this and need to work your way up. Preparing for a length or lap requires mental preparation as well. Learning to calm your respiratory and pulmonary rates down is huge for doing this. This is not a sprint event, it is a duration event. As for angling up from the bottom, for me, with a full lung of air, I am positively buoyant, so floating towards the top saves energy. As a kid, I swam the length of a 50 yard pool in one breath. Started at the bottom of the deep end and swam to the shallow end. Used the buoyancy thing to the max. I did do one freestyle max distance, and made a length and over 1/2, before taking a breath. No where near black out. My favorite swimming stroke is the old over arm side stroke. Figured it out from learning the Combat swim side stroke. Faster than breast stroke, back stroke, and may be able to hold up against the fly.

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What drills should be done to perform this technique? - Kick Drills - Push Off (Streamline) - Push Off w/Wide Legs Do you have any other drills to help breakdown this swim stroke? Like arm stroke drill or dolphin kick drill? KZfaq has been my coach so it’s been difficult to master this technique. Also thank you for your time

thank you so much for explanation finally i got it right to swim under water lol my teacher was pretty happy

Going to try this when i swim next i always feel floating to the top but i see in this vid the position they swim in legs up towards the water and head chest towards the bottom thanks

currently practicing this stroke. this video helped me a lot but i still cant reach the end of the pool. i have a bad breath control, and will try to work that one out. thank you for this!

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After watching the video, today I gave it a try in the pool. The outcome is amazing. Almost immediately, I reduced the 25m dive from 8 strokes to 5. What I did include: 1.change my arm stroke from the normal breast-stroke to the full length stroke. 2.due to above change, I need to change the timing of kicking accordingly. It still begins after the arm stroke finishes. I just need some practice to get used to the new rhythm. 3.fine-tune my streamline position, by deliberately tightening the core. 4.tilt my arms a little higher when the stroke starts, to make the stroke more powerful, i.e. the whipping effect. It doesn't mean I can save the time and energy proportionately to the number of strokes, because each stroke now spends more time and energy due to the prolonged arm stroke. However, the improvement is significant.

How do I prevent from floating up?

What about the "dolphin kick". Isn't that the most fastest and most energy efficient kick under water. ??

I’m working up to 50m and I’ve been using hand paddles in all my swim training as well as this training to make my pull stronger. Do you have an opinion on those?

I'm training to become a Pj thank you for the tips

This video is extremely helpful, thank you so much. I have a question for you sir, where would i go about finding a person just like you to assist me in training for pararescue. I swim on a daily basis on my own and I feel as if I'm not pushing myself hard enough on my own and need an instructor. My friend who just got a Seal Contract was being helped by what he called an SF Instructor (Special Forces Instructor). I am a military dependent and have access to the military base in my area and need assistance on where i should go to find someone to help me just like you help people in your area. Any information would be very grateful, thank you!

I like swimming under water for fun and holding my breath, I've always done a breast stroke kick with breast stroke arm paddle, and with a slight scissor kick while I glide. That's probably not very oxygen efficient lol Another style I like to do just for fun is what I call a penguin style, I basically ondulante my entire body keeping my arms close to my body, but I actually also use my arms to propel myself by swinging them up and down, and I tilt my hands always in such a way that I propel myself. For most people that last method is stupid and extremely inefficient, but for whatever reason I actually make it work. I used to be on a swimming team (and later on water polo) and I was always good at butterfly so I guess my ondulating technique is very good lol I've also observed that it's more efficient when you hug the bottom floor because the high pressure area that you create as you ondulate under your body has nowhere to go except backwards, propelling you forwards more efficiently. When I go to the pool, I'm the only 21 year old who swims underwater just for fun, everyone else seems happy dipping their feet in the water and chatting while they wear aviator sunglasses and fashionable swim wear ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I had given up on this style of swimming. Now I can freely swim under water

Training for ND. As someone who is only 5"7, what should I be focusing on training the most?

I just can't figure out how to do the dolphin kick

Hi sir. I have an issue with floating up while doing the swim. For some reason I seem to be too buoyant. What am I doing wrong?

Breathing technique for underwater??

Is it advisable to let out small bits of air as you go or hold it all in until the end?

Hello Fargo, I am unable to comment or message you on the forums about the open spots on Sunday. Is there another way to contact you? I am very interested, but have a limited swimming background. Do you work with beginners? If so I would appreciate the opportunity.

Thanks sir

l Di very good the first time. thanks

Can you post a video on how to avoid surfacing and staying at that ideal distance from the bottom of the pool. I bubble up every time.

How do u get to the bottom like that without floating slowly to the top? Do u do a 50% breath hold instead of a 100% so u can sink?

I was practicing this alone and apparently passed out underwater. I got to the side somehow, and did not remember what happened, or where I was. I was around 25 and in pretty good shape.

A lot of military water courses do require you to reach the bottom of a10’ or more deep pool.

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Xeo T is part of our regular training group now. That's all it takes.

I just keep floating up. The only way I can stay underwater is that I have to breath out completely. and then I cannot swim much cause I already have almost no air in my lungs

Do you still help guys trying to join the military?

God I need that recon

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While this was educational, it was distracting watching two demonstrations side by side at the same time, it made it hard to know who to follow. All in all ok video.

Did not see the oxygen tanks

You were originally trying for a billot to BUD/s. Now i see you're coaching. What happened?

Blackouts rarely result in death (assuming your with other people)

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